u serious? so I can put the small one in the big one? I am trying to make this sound serious now and failing but SERIOUS question, my soundcard has a small thing, and that's a big hole (ffs im trying) u know what I mean.

u serious? so I can put the small one in the big one? I am trying to make this sound serious now and failing but SERIOUS question, my soundcard has a small thing, and that's a big hole (ffs im trying) u know what I mean.

u serious? so I can put the small one in the big one? I am trying to make this sound serious now and failing but SERIOUS question, my soundcard has a small thing, and that's a big hole (ffs im trying) u know what I mean.

Yes it'll be fine, that slot just has more lanes (4) so anything smaller like your sound card will fit and just use the required lanes

06-03-2012, 10:00
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Originally Posted by ArCElM

Thanks for the hasty advice mate, but THAT'S A HUGE BLACK ONE, my soundcard has only a tiny willy, it will be like waving a party sausage around in the Mersey tunnel.

its pcie. you can fit pcie 1x cards in full 16x slots. and if your board's pcie 1x slot doesnt have the blocking plastic at the end, you can fit a full length graphics card into a 1x slot as well and it will run. but obviously, the graphics card will only run at 1x in a 1x slot.

the bottom 4x slot uses the lanes from your z77 pch iirc, so it wont reduce the speed of your full length pcie16x slots.